Many novels about female friendship are meant to comfort but this one ends with robot police and curfews

Aquatic-themed books from Liam Campbell, Eithne Massey, Alanna Moore, John Feehan, Robert O’Leary, Tom Dredge, Colin Urwin and Emma Byrne

The author at the very least shows us there’s more to the story of painting than a single straight line

Latest collection from the author of Intimacies and Openings does not disappoint

Jim Windolf’s dual biography revisits rock’s most fertile creative collision

Books by Martina Hefter, Mieko Kawakami, Jeyamohan, Balsam Karam and Yuri Felsen

An offbeat meditation on masculinity by Luke Brennan, an intimate study of the small-boat traditions of the Atlantic by David Gange, and a warning from Jason Whittaker

O’Hanlon bolsters obligatory cosy crime genre tropes with self-deprecating knowingness and playful inventiveness

Book focuses on how reporter Ellen Coyne’s scoop grew legs and sent An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha into a near-existential crisis

New memoir from Girls creator has plenty of humour - as well as sadness, betrayal and score-settling

Caroline Sharples delineates the political atmosphere of post-capitulation Germany and real fears Allies harboured about reawakening of Nazism

Islands are receptacles of dreams and obsessions – yet we should be careful what we wish for

Contributors note the 1926 census recorded an Ireland ‘in transition’, with emigration and poverty rife, yet the new State was finding its feet

Eoin O’Sullivan, Mike Allen and Sarah Sheridan’s study is essential reading for anyone with a role to play in breaking vicious cycle of persistent problem

There are many poignant moments, but the main character’s inner monologue is often scathingly funny

A salutary warning of the dangers of carelessness and miscalculation in the conduct of international affairs

Hybrid work aims to create an enigmatic portrait of the French author

Plus new works by Rosemary Hennigan; Catriona Ward; Claire Coughlan; and James Wolff

Trinity College Dublin cleaner’s beautifully written memoir is no rags-to-riches story but a book about motherhood, choice and the constant renegotiation of a woman’s life

The 60 authors in this ‘career retrospective’ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry